Plank Road Tavern — Restaurant in Lakewood

We went to Planks and our very polite and very sober Black male friend was blatantly discriminated against. He sat at the bar for nearly 30 minutes without service. Once he was served, he ordered three beverages at once to not have to sit at the bar and be blatantly ignored any further during our two hour stay there. He also ordered food. When the server brought us our food, our friend asked for a side of ranch. The server told him it would be $1 extra, which he agreed to without hesitation. The server brought the ranch back to him, stuck his hand out to him, and asked for ONE DOLLAR immediately, rather than adding to any of our open tabs. Our friend gave him the dollar and tipped him an extra dollar as well. The manner that he asked in and the way he stuck out his hand to our friend was clearly indicative of thinking he wasn’t going to pay and/or was trying to get out of paying the ONE dollar that he agreed to pay. No other individuals at our table of ELEVEN (11) were treated this way at all, besides our Black friend. It should be added that our friend did not complain once and was nothing more than polite, patient, and compliant, despite the clear mistreatment. The blatant racism was disgusting and we will absolutely not return to this establishment or ever support them again. So sad to see! Awful awful service and experience. I am leaning ZERO stars and urge others to be educated in the establishments they’re supporting and the way they treat POLITE, PAYING customers due to...

(1) The best Manhattan in the world (outside a little place I used to visit that garnished theirs with hand-picked Polish cherries macerated for the month in Belgian cognac; but at $24 a drink, each should have also included a ba-jay-jay). (2) Staff so sweet you could just just lick 'em (please don't try this here, though; even places "deep downtown" discourage such activity). (3) And pub food a notch above anything else in the area (you must try the Plank Fries, done well; they're so addictive I'm convinced the secret ingredient is crack). Classy without being stuffy, casual without being Jersey Shore, a neighborhood place worth leaving your neighborhood to come visit. Just don't get too comfortable; those of us in the neighborhood like it kept mostly...

I visited this place for the first time about a week ago and the second time this weekend. We just moved to the neighborhood from Portland and LOVE that they have my favorite beer on tap Stella as well as a decent selection of bourbon. I am terrible with names but one time I had a female bartender and she was definitely a 5 star bartender and the second time was a male bartender he was professional but seemed to serve the regulars first even though they just sat down. He got 3 stars and here we are the a total average of 4 stars. Great Bar haven't tried the food but...